Picture-frame.



C. WARD.

PICTURE FRAME. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 23, 1907.

IIIflIIIIIIIIIIII/II murl I I Patented Sept. 15, 1908.

UNITED STATES PATENT orrron.

CHARLES WARD, OF GHIOAGO, ILLINOIS.

PICTURE-FRAME Application filed September 23, 1907.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES WARD, citizen of the United States, residingat Chicago, in the county of Cook and-State of Illinois, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Picture-Frames, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to picture frames and to the art of making thesame, whereby satisfactory ornamental shapes or frames may be made bythe use of small pieces of Wood which are glued or otherwise secured oneupon the other so as to form the frame or shape desired.

The invention enables a frame of highly ornamental appearance to beformed at a very cheap price, using small pieces of wood which mightotherwise be Wasted.

In the accompanying drawings one embodiment of the invention isillustrated, but the same idea and construction maybe applied to theproduction of other frames differing in shape and appearance.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a plan view of a frameconstructed according to the invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view of theblanks or pieces of wood of which the frame is made. Fig. 3 is a sectionon the line 33 of Fig. 1.

' Referring specifically to the drawings, the

frame is shown composed of a considerable number of small pieces of woodwhich are shown in detail in Fig. 2. The front pieces are indicated at 6and are of irregular diamond or lozenge shape, being, particularly,tapered on opposite edges toward one end, as indicated at 7, so thatwhen arranged in a layer or beside each other they will produce acircular or oval frame. These pieces are pointed at both ends, and maybe made of different sizes or Widths, with the large pieces inalternation with the small pieces, in the front layer, as shown inFig. 1. And

the large pieces may be ornamented by small diamonds 8 glued thereto.The rear pieces9 form the main part or 'body of the frame. These pieceshave, or need have, the point at only one end, being the end which isexposed at the inner circle or edge of the frame. Numerous or severallayers of these pieces are built up to form a frame of the desiredthick- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 15, 1908.

Serial No. 394,145.

ness, and the pieces are so arranged that joints are broken between thepieces of the respective layers, and the inwardly directed points standin rows in the alternate layers, producing a novel and pleasing effect.The pieces are so arranged that each layer increases in size or diametertoward the front, producing a beveled effect, and necessarily the piecesforming each layer will be somewhat wider than those forming the nextlayer below, in order to produce the increased diameter of the former.

The drawings show a circular frame, but obviously the pieces may be madeso as to form an oval frame or a rectangular or other shaped frame,retaining, however, the idea of a frame built up of a series ofsuperposed layers each of which is formed of a plurality of smallpieces. The pointed or diamond shaped pieces are shown for the purposeof illustration. Obviously this sha e may be varied according to theshape 0' the frame and according to the design to be produced. Thepieces are conveniently glued together, but other fastening means may beemployed. The utilization of a large number of small pieces in themanner described permits artistic frames to be produced in simulation ofconventional flower forms or the like, and giving a shape and depth to aframe practically impossible with ordinary constructions.

I claim 1. A picture frame consisting of a series of superposed layersfastened together, each layer comprising a plurality of pieces ofconventional form all of which are arranged radially in the frame toform a design, the pieces of the adjacent layers being arranged to lapthe longitudinal edges of each other, to break joints.

2. A picture frame consisting of a series of superposed layers each ofwhich is formed of a plurality of tapered pieces extending radially,said layers and pieces being fastened together.

In testimony whereof I afliX- my signature, in presence of twowitnesses.

CHARLES WARD.

Witnesses:

NELLIE FnLTsKoG, WM. J. RoBrNsoN.

